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Source: The Last American Vagabond April 14, 2018 by RT Multiple targets in Syria were bombarded by the US, UK, and France in retaliation to what they said was an Assad-orchestrated chemical attack near Damascus. Here are the main facts about the intervention. Washington approved “precision strikes” against Syria early on Saturday, alongside British and French forces that also took part in the bombing. Shortly after US President Donald Trump announced the bombardment, reports began surfacing of explosions in Damascus. Syrian air defense units were scrambled to thwart the aerial invasion, intercepting 71 out of 103 of the missiles, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. Now, as Syria deals with the…

Photo by Felton Davis | CC BY 2.0 Source: counterpunch March 23, 2018 by Brett Wilkins For the second time in as many years, President Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, second-in-command to one of the world’s most repressive dictators, to the White House. Trump used Tuesday’s visit to tout the$12.5 billion worth of warplanes, missiles, warships and other weapons the Saudi regime has purchased from US corporations since the president and the prince last met. “A lot of people are at work” thanks to Saudi Arabia’s purchase of American arms, Trump noted. A lot of people are also dying as a direct result of US, and broader Western,…

Source: The Corbett Report January 5, 2017 James Corbett Are these protests in Iran spontaneous, or are they the result of another regime change operation? This week on The Corbett Report James explores the past, present and future of US and Israeli involvement in Iran, and the attempts to foment unrest in the country. This video (We Need to Talk About the Iran Protests) was originally created and published by Corbett Report and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to James Corbett and CorbettReport,com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement. Related Posts:US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With…

While the media obsesses over Russiagate, it ignores the Pentagon’s admission to aiding genocide in the Middle East with ground troops and airstrikes. Source: The Free Thought Project December 24, 2017 By Rachel Blevins As politicians fight to keep an investigation into collusion between Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign alive, the Pentagon has admitted to aiding in the genocide of millions of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. The Defense Department released a statement this week, in which it admitted for the first time that U.S. forces have conducted “multiple ground operations and more than 120 strikes this year” in Yemen. The DoD justified the increased…

by Paul Craig Roberts Did you know that Washington keeps 450 nuclear ICBMs on “hair-trigger alert”? Washington thinks that this makes us “safe.” The reasoning, if it can be called reason, is that by being able to launch in a few minutes, no one will try to attack the US with nuclear weapons. US missiles are able to get on their way before the enemy’s missiles can reach the US to destroy ours. If this makes you feel safe, you need to read Eric Schlosser’s book, Command and Control. The trouble with hair-triggers is that they make mistaken, accidental, and unauthorized launch more likely. Schlosser provides a history of almost…

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